Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-01-20

CALIFORNIA; Winter Visitors,

San Francisco Alta
People in San Francisco are hardly
aware of the great success which attends
the Eastern midwinter excursions TO Sac
ramento as distributing and departure
point. We have seen already, during occa-
sional visits TO the capital, three of these
excursions disembark there, and the merit
of that city as tourist and immigration
center has been each time demonstrated.
From there these parties have divided,
some going up the San joaquin valley,
some up the Sacramento, some TO the Santa
Clara and Salinas. 1t is worth remarklng,
too, that these parties differ somewhat In
their makeup from the winter visitors to
Southern California. Those come primarily
seeking health, and many of them shat
tered by disease. These come seeking
homes, and. as rule, with the means to
establish them.
Southern California is destined to finally
receive hundreds CT thousands OF health
seekers who, even in season solourn,
will pour into her lap great profits which
will firmly plant her permanent prosperity,
but it is remarkable that the reputation OF
that part of the State as sanitarium has
come to depend upon its winter being dry.
That region is a sundial, and the condl-
tons of its progress require that, dial-hke,
II should record the bright hours only.
That section is great as prophylactic and
a, a producer, and its fortunes are made,
b, the days dark or bright.
But the healthy home makers who want
t. plant themselves where health IS not
lost. where the climate is kindly and where
seed-time and harvest are more certain
than in any other portion OF the world.
are looking to the great valleys and their
collaterals.
There they find land yet ruling at rea-
sonable price, and they find that there
less acreage than elsewhere on the con-
tinent sustains family and assures, aoso-
lutely assures, the answer to the wise man
PRAYER for neither poverty nor riches, but
competence, sweetened by the pleasure
which attends upon its accumulation.
These excursions 20 Sacramento give
visitors the chance to get complete knowl-
edge of the whole States geography, topog-
raphv and climate, and to satisfy them
selves BY observation that California is the
only winterless land in the United States.
We want all who come by that route to
visit the southern part of the State also, as
we would like all who land in the south to
come into this part too, if their strength
were equal to the journey; for we want all
who make the long trip from the East to
know our entire State before they re-
tun or before they make up their
minds where they will locate and
stay. We want them, too, to know how
thoroughly California is complimentary in
her climate, resources and products TO the
East, and how Mt ,ssary this State is to the
complete commercial greatness OF the
Union. Ours is not the enthusiasm of the
neophyte. 1t is the judgment OF an unim-
passioned observer, and whatever enthu-
siasm we infuse into our written and pub
lished opinions, is only for the rousing of
Californians themselves, who, long accus-
toned to turn up the bell muzzle of their
Horn of Plenty and take thegoods the gods
send them, are bit lacking in expressive
appreciation of their State.
Eastern people who come here need no
exterior enthusiasm to give edge and zest
to their enjoyment of all they see and feel.
To them this is the Land of Satisfaction.
1t is the concrete of all their dreams, and
they can hardly believe it real until they
have proved by years stay that our sun
shine and verdure do not take unto them
wings and fly away.